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Wise guy: From the Mafia to The Godfather
Wise guy: From the Mafia to The Godfather
Brando taught him to act, Sinatra taught him to sing, Monroe 'made him a man' and Escobar wanted him dead. Listen to the extraordinary life story of Gianni Russo. Audio, Gallery
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Music Alive Matinée: In Memoriam
Music Alive Matinée: In Memoriam
25 May 2019Tenor Jared Holt joins the New Zealand String Quartet for a concert including the première of a song cycle by Janet Jennings.
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Lucy the Poodle: A murder mystery
Lucy the Poodle: A murder mystery
22 May 2019A new TV series has just launched, it's a mystery, but perhaps not the type we're used to. It involves three circus lions, Rotorua and a missing poodle. Audio
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At the Movies: John Wick 3
At the Movies: John Wick 3
22 May 2019Keanu Reeves' dog-loving hitman is up against even more assassination in the latest John Wick film. It's undeniably entertaining, but hopefully future installments will give female characters more to do, says Simon Morris. Video, Audio
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RNZ Concert Chart
RNZ Concert Chart
25 May 2019Check in at midday to find out about the best-selling albums in NZ and around the world this week.
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First Pasifika woman to hold solo show at Wellington's Adam Art Gallery
First Pasifika woman to hold solo show at Wellington's Adam Art Gallery
20 May 2019Samoan-New Zealand photographer Edith Amituana'i focuses on her majority-migrant West Auckland community in the new exhibition Double Take. Dominic Godfrey takes a walk through. Audio
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Top NZ albums that are 25 this year
Top NZ albums that are 25 this year
25 May 2019For NZ Music Month we're celebrating some of the enduring Kiwi albums that came out in 1994, including ones by Supergroove, Dave Dobbyn, The Mutton Birds, Strawpeople and Richard Nunns and Hirini Melbourne.
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LISTEN: Essential New Zealand Albums
LISTEN: Essential New Zealand Albums
27 May 2019Music critic Nick Bollinger has spent thousands of hours listening to hundreds of albums over many years. Here he talks about some of the very best records from Aotearoa.
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Classical podcasts
Classical podcasts
24 May 2019Two women, two classics, two free downloads. Enjoy the music of Scheherazade and Elvira Madigan courtesy of RNZ Concert.
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Friday Night Live: A Strange Day's Night of The Beatles
Friday Night Live: A Strange Day's Night of The Beatles
24 May 2019Enjoy a celebration of The Beatles in A Strange Days Night - songs by the Fab Four performed by an array of local artists live at The Auckland Town Hall.
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Music Alive: NZ Secondary Students' Choir
Music Alive: NZ Secondary Students' Choir
24 May 2019'Choirs on Fridays' continues this week with the NZ Secondary Students' Choir singing a delightfully mixed programme in Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington.
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All Blacks: Will the SBW gamble be Hansen's undoing?
All Blacks: Will the SBW gamble be Hansen's undoing?
24 May 2019Steve Hansen's unwavering faith in Sonny Bill Williams being fit for the Rugby World Cup is both admirable and concerning, Hamish Bidwell writes.
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Memoirs of Sir Donald McIntyre
Memoirs of Sir Donald McIntyre
24 May 2019In 'The Only Way is Up' bass-baritone Sir Donald McIntyre reflects on his life on the greatest opera stages of the world. Editor Heath Lees and colleague Simon O'Neill talk to Upbeat. Audio
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'I still have that haunting feeling that I should have put up a bigger fight'
'I still have that haunting feeling that I should have put up a bigger fight'
26 May 2019Insight - The partner of a man sexually assaulted while in the army in the 1970s is demanding the attack be investigated. Video, Audio
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Kings, Tomorrow People and SWIDT among winners at the 2019 Pacific Music Awards
Kings, Tomorrow People and SWIDT among winners at the 2019 Pacific Music Awards
24 May 2019The Pacific music industry was in full celebration tonight, at the 15th annual Pacific Music Awards, where Her Majesty Queen Sālote Tupou lll was posthumously honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Climate change missing from Trump's Pacific meeting - analysts
Climate change missing from Trump's Pacific meeting - analysts
Pacific analysts say a meeting between US President Donald Trump and the Freely Associated States has ignored climate change.
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East New Britain takes stock of large quake, still affected by rains
East New Britain takes stock of large quake, still affected by rains
24 May 2019Around 300 people on Papua New Guinea's Duke of York group are without homes after their houses were destroyed in last week's major earthquake.
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Marshall Islands boots out companies implicated in Russian scandal
Marshall Islands boots out companies implicated in Russian scandal
23 May 2019Two Marshall Islands-registered corporations associated with what has been reported as possibly the "biggest money-laundering scheme in history" had their corporate registrations revoked by the Trust Company of the Marshall Islands this week.
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Eels tagged to reveal mystery Pacific spawning site
Eels tagged to reveal mystery Pacific spawning site
23 May 2019New Zealand scientists are hoping tags on 10 longfin eels will help them pinpoint where in the Pacific Ocean they go to spawn.
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Pacific Mamas drape Auckland Town hall with gift of love
Pacific Mamas drape Auckland Town hall with gift of love
24 May 2019The next time you're walking along Queen Street in downtown Auckland, cast your eyes to the town hall.
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'People's Climate Case' involving Fijian family dismissed
'People's Climate Case' involving Fijian family dismissed
A Fijian family involved in an international climate case has been told they have no right to go to court to challenge the EU's climate target.
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Costly police hunt for PNG criminal
Costly police hunt for PNG criminal
23 May 2019Papua New Guinea's Police Commissioner says the hunt for notorious criminal gang leader Tommy Baker has been scaled down.
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Pharmac: The secret list
Pharmac: The secret list
24 May 2019Desperate patients are being left in the dark as to when Pharmac will fund medicines. Guyon Espiner asks why the drug-buying agency operates with such secrecy.
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Māui: dance theatre piece adds hip-hop flavour to Māori legend
Māui: dance theatre piece adds hip-hop flavour to Māori legend
23 May 2019After a sold-out Auckland Fringe Festival run, dance crew Fresh Movement will again perform Māui at next month's Pacific Dance Festival. Video, Audio